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After the inspired ‘restaurants-with-rooms’ comes the perhaps even more desirable ‘wine centres-with-rooms’

It seemed too good to be true. First, there were restaurants-with-rooms. Now,
I discovered, there appeared to be wine centres-with-rooms. I drove down the
M23, and across the A27, full of anticipation, ready to try the finest wines
available to England — and then go for a snooze afterwards.

The English Wine Centre, in East Sussex, is run by Colin Munday and his wife
Christine, who have turned their hands to the splendid idea of “wine rooms”,
which opened last month. Since buying the centre, which had been quietly
selling domestic wines from a little shop in a flint barn, the